Cory Booker's peeved reaction to Beto speaking Spanish at the debate is an instant meme

Mashable ^ | 6/27/2019 | Johnny Lieu

[simpson96]

Ever felt threatened by someone else's fancy language skills?

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker seemed to feel just that during the Democratic Debate on Wednesday night, when rival candidate Beto O'Rourke flexed his Spanish skills first.

When Beto was asked if he would support a higher tax rate for top earners, he responded by stating that the economy needed to "work for everyone." Beto then switched mid-answer to Spanish, and Booker was caught glaring in his wake.(snip)

He also dropped an answer in Spanish later in the debate. But Beto got there first. It's like someone stealing your song at karaoke or wearing the same outfit as you. Booker's raw irritation

[Kozak]

Cory should have responded in Jive.

[x]

Liz looks small and old and even more schoolmarmish here.

[Chickensoup]

When I was young and one needed a language to graduate High School Spanish was the easy one to choose. College bound people choose Latin, French, Russian or German. There was no option for Mandarin or Japanese.

[mylife]

What bunch of pendejos.

[SMARTY]

Caption for Booker:

‘How dare you pander better than I do!’

[1Old Pro]

Cory should have responded in Jive.

Now that would be a funny SNL skit, then have Warren speak Indian, DeBlasio speak Russian, etc.

[mylife]

a bunch

[Gen.Blather]

I am astonished that the debates set a 15M viewer record, with four point something in the 25-45 demographic. Very scary. I had predicted the opposite. This potentially means a high voter turnout.

[OttawaFreeper]

Beto should have asked if he could speak in Spanish, like Sollozzo did before speaking Italian with Michael.

[1Old Pro]

‘How dare you pander better than I do!’

Booker wanted to be the first to speak broken Spanish, but the Irish guy beat him to it.

[Texas Eagle]

Fauxcahontas should have responded to a question with smoke signals.

[Texas Eagle]

What’s next? Answering a question in mime?

[Tx Angel]

Many were probably like me, just wanting to see what they were running on.

Wasn’t surprised.

[Larry Lucido]

He should have chosen Irish. Maybe Booker could have gone that way.

Wonder which language Pocahontas chose?

[HombreSecreto]

I speak jive.

Chump don’t want no help, chump don’t get no help.

[Texas Eagle]

Warren should have responded to a question in Hekawi.

[Spruce]

Heh, or interpretive dance. Or puppetry. That would actually be pretty cool

[samtheman]

‘How dare you pander better than I do!’
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LOL

[Larry Lucido]

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